Position Statement – 2025 A.8271 (Davila)/S.8197 (Brisport) Support The Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York (“WBASNY”) supports A.8271 (Davila)/S.8197 (Brisport) amending the Family Court Act to establish a right to counsel in proceedings regarding violations of orders of child support and to establish paternity or parentage in family court. This legislation amends the Family ... Read More
WBASNY Legislation
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2025 – A.8297 / S.8374
Position Statement – 2025 A.8297 (Lunsford)/S.8374 (Persaud) Support The Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York (“WBASNY”) supports A.8297 (Lunsford)/S.8374 (Persaud) amending §425 of the Family Court Act to create and implement a pilot program to provide state-funded alternative dispute resolution (“ADR”) for child support matters. Despite supporting the goals of the program, ... Read More
2020 – A.2176A / S.425
Position Statement – 2020 A.2176A / S.425 (Protect Our Courts) Support The Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York (WBASNY) supports and strongly encourages the passage of the Protect Our Courts Act (the “Act”). Since the year 2017, there has been a drastic uptick in immigration detention of undocumented immigrants outside of our State courthouses. The non-profit organization ... Read More
2025 – A.5898 / S.5083
Position Statement – 2025 A.5898 (Tapia) / S.5083 (Sepulveda) Support The Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York (“WBASNY”), strongly supports A.5898 (Tapia)/S.5083 (Sepulveda), legislation that would ensure that the beneficiaries of state-paid judges and justices receive death benefits even if the deceased judge was not retired at the time of their death. This measure would ... Read More
2025 – S.1816 / A.944
Position Statement – 2025 S.1816 (Fernandez)/A.944 (Rivera) Relates to the definition of blood lead levels Support The Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York (“WBASNY”), a leading advocate for women’s and children’s rights, supports S.1816 (Fernandez)/A.944 (Rivera), amending the public health law, in relation to the definition of elevated blood lead levels. Specifically, this ... Read More
2025 – S.3202 / A.8449
Position Statement – 2025 S.3202 (Fernandez)/A.8449 (Levenberg) Support The Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York (“WBASNY”) supports S.3202 (Fernandez)/A.8449 (Levenberg), the Digital Alterations Protection Act, legislation establishing new crimes to address the threat of digitized sexually explicit material that is created and shared to circumvent child sex abuse material ... Read More
2025 – S.1807-A / A.2311-A
Position Statement – 2025 S.1807-A (Fernandez)/A.2311-A (Zaccaro) Prohibits charging a fee for the issuance of a certificate of stillbirth or fetal death. Support The Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York (“WBASNY”) supports the passage of S.1807-A (Fernandez)/A.2311-A (Zaccaro), legislation that prohibits the imposition of a fee for a stillbirth child’s certificate of death. In the ... Read More
2025 – S.54 /A.101
Position Statement – 2025 S.54 /A.101 Prohibits the use of intoxication of the victim as a defense in sex crimes Support The Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York (“WBASNY”) strongly supports this legislation, which would amend penal law section 130 and prohibit the use of a victim’s voluntary intoxication as a defense in sex crimes. WBASNY believes this change in the law is ... Read More